grandmother from indiana. what was the charge? one count of parading in the capital, i kid you not. the effort to deprogram her thoughts. but first, the military s woke makeover. that is the focus of tonight s angle. if you were chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and secretary of defense or any top military leader today, there is a lot that should keep you up at night, right? put yourself in that role. but most all of it is coming from china. threats to our ally taiwan, strategic ally in the pacific, china is itching to invade them, threats from china s hackers and intel agencies, their growing presence in africa, plus china threatening us in space. but our current chairman general mark milley is apparently spending a lot of his waking hours worrying about what he thinks is wrong with the united states. yesterday when republican congressmen raised reasonable questions about whether it s a good idea to expose our soldiers to anti-american propaganda in the form of this cr
was a grandmother from indiana. what was the charge. one count of parading in the capital. she s here exclusively to tell us how long she was locked away in the effort to deprogram her thoughts but first the military s woke makeover is the focus of tonight s angle. if you were chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and secretary of defense or any top military leader today there is a lot that should keep you up at night? put yourself in the role. most all of it is coming from china. threats to our ally taiwan, our strategic allies in the pacific, china is itching to invade them, threats from china hackers and intel agencies, their growing presence in africa plus china is threatening is in space but our current chairman of the joint chiefs general mike millie is spending a lot of his waking hours worrying about what he thinks is wrong with the united states. yesterday when republican congressman raised reasonable questions about whether it is a good idea to expose our soldiers t
paves the way to an actual bill? let s dig deeper on all of this. i want to bring in nbc s national reporter sahil kippur, and moderator for washington week on pbs, it s friday so you better tune in. sahil, let s talk about voting rights. talk to us about joe manchin s compromise and whether it actually changes the prospects of something getting done here. reporter: that s right, steph crucial offer, because if they can get that, they can say they re united and force a conversation about whether more is an option. they need 60 votes to move forward. they don t have any hope of getting meaningful republican support to advance this bill. the senate is likely to vote on tuesday. there are multiple things that manchin said that offered democratic support, including making election day a national holiday guaranteeing 15 days of national voting. even a push for some i.d. rules was pushed by warnock if it is designed in a way to not be restrictive or oppressive. a significant move
for an update on the vaccine race. a disturbing video from the january 6th insurrection. it showed a man wielding a flagpole in the direction of police officers. the doj has a stunning detail about who he is. a former new york city police officer. we will get an update on the case in a few moments. we start with the new hurdles and passing the president s agenda. garrett haake has the latest from the hill. nbc s mike memoli is standing by for us at the white house. garrett, i will start with you. set the stage for us. where are we right now in this infrastructure negotiation process? we don t know a lot about the bipartisan proposal. some democrats seem to be pressing forward on going at it without republicans. what about that $6 trillion plan progressives are floating? reporter: the infrastructure effort is still proceeding on two parallel tracks. bipartisan negotiations about hard infrastructure, what potentially enough senators from the two parties could agree to,
we are thrilled that they are up with us bright and early this sunday, june 20th. to all of the dads out there, hope you are having a happy father s day. amara, great to see you. great to be with you this morning and happy father s day to all the fathers in our lives. we begin with breaking news this morning. three people have been taken to the hospital after a shooting in houston. yeah, the s.w.a.t. team is on the scene there looking for a suspect right now. we are still following the latest information coming from the area. we are going to bring you the latest as we get it. of course, we want to pivot to what happened in south florida yesterday. a person is dead, at least one more injured after a white pickup truck plowed through a group of pedestrians. we are now learning that the driver and the victims are members of the fort lauderdale gay men s chorus community. this happened at the stonewall pride parade around 7:00 last night in wilton manors, florida. very clos